University of Toronto Astronomy Colloquia



	ASTRONOMY COLLOQUIA

Spring 2008

Jan 18	Dr. Martin Durant (IAC) *High time-resolution astrophysics: the unusual black hole SWIFT J1753.5-0127* Host: Marten van Kerkwijk
Jan 25	Prof. Brian McNamara (Waterloo) *AGN Feedback in Clusters and Galaxies* Host: Ue-Li Pen
Feb 8	Prof. Doug Gies (GSU) *Mass and Angular Momentum Transformations in Massive Binary Stars* Host: Tom Bolton
Feb 15	Prof. Pieter van Dokkum (Yale) *WANTED (Dead or Alive): The Progenitors of Massive Galaxies* Host: Ray Jayawardhana
Feb 22	Dr. Rachel Rosen (UNC) *A Non-radial Oscillation Model for Radio Pulsars* Host: Marten van Kerkwijk
Feb 29	Prof. Lee Hartmann (Michigan) *New approaches to star formation*
Mar 7	Prof. Ethan Vishniac (McMaster) *Disk Dynamos and the Origin of Magnetic Fields in Galaxies*
Mar 14 MP 202	Prof. Kip Thorne (Caltech) *LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory* * Special Sackler Technical Lecture * Host: CITA
Mar 20 3 PM	Dr. Edo Berger (OCIW) *Gamma-Ray Bursts: From Progenitors to Probes* CITA seminar Host: Dae-Sik Moon
Mar 28	Prof. Andrea Ghez (UCLA; H.S. Hogg Lecturer) *Massive Stars at the Galactic Center: A Paradox of Youth?* Host: Marten van Kerkwijk
Apr 4	Prof. Doug Welch (McMaster) *Light Echoes from LMC and Galactic Supernovae* Host: Bob Abraham
Apr 11	Prof. Jonathan Tan (UFL) *The Galactic Star Formation Hierarchy: Massive Stars, Star Clusters and Global Rates* Host: Chris Matzner
Apr 18	Dr. Jennifer Sokoloski (Columbia) *Observations of Stellar Explosions and Jets*
Apr 23 Wed 3pm Cody Hall	Drs. Kim Tait and Ian Niklin (ROM) *The meteorite collection of the Royal Ontario Museum: an overview.* Host: John Percy
May 9	Prof. Mercedes Richards (PSU) *Images of Accretion Flows in Interacting Binaries*
May 15 Th 11am Cody Hall	Drs. Bob Simcoe and Ian Shelton *Digitizing with Commercial Scanners* Host: Lee Robbins
June 13	Dr. Rene Breton (McGill) *Relativistic Spin Precession in the Double Pulsar* Host: Marten van Kerkwijk

Last modified: 21 Oct 2008, 14:15:01

Dae-Sik Moon (moon@astro) / Yanqin Wu (wu@astro) / Ray Jayawardhana (rayjay@astro) / Marten van Kerkwijk (mhvk@astro)

Colloquia are Fridays, at 2 PM, in Cody Hall. They are followed by refreshments in the lounge, AB 201.

Instructions for speakers

Schedule with abstracts

Schedule without abstracts

Student seminars

CITA seminars

Physics colloquia

Past colloquia: 2003A, 2003B, 2004A, 2004B, 2005A, 2005B, 2006A, 2006B, 2007A, 2007B, 2008A, 2008B, 2009A, 2009B, 2010A, 2010B, 2011A

Current colloquia: 2011B